scott brown is wrong. so we'd like to hear from senator brown as soon as he gets to washington about why exactly he posted that on his facebook pain and what he meant by a proposal, but the administration official eager to knock that down. a little bit of drama about whether we had a counter offer here. apparently we do not have a counter offer. we will be monitoring facebook, twitter, instagram and maybe even my space for all the latest developments. >> it is a sign of the times, isn't it, eamon. markets moving, political gyrations get put on facebook pages. wouldn't you say? >> you need to build a giant algorithm that monitors everybody's facebook page plus all the twitter feeds and instagram. if you can pull that together, you might have something. >> eamon, we have pulled all that together. it's called cnbc. here we are. >> this is what we're doing today. >> we are your one stop shop. thank you very much, eamon. >>> is today's drop in the markets all about the fiscal cliff? let's bring in tim and dan g